| RUMOUR See also: Gossip; Slander; Speech | 謠言 |
| It is said that where there's smoke there's fire;
but the smoke may be no more than dust and hot air. 常言有煙的地方就有火；可是有時候有煙卻只有灰塵與熱空氣。 |
| A rumour is about as hard to
unspreaded as butter. 謠言擴散的程度就像抹在麵包上的奶油。 |
| Believe not half you hear; repeat not half you
believe; when you hear an evil report, halve it, then quarter it, and say nothing about
the rest of it. C. H. Spurgeon 相信一半你聽到的；重述一半你相信的；當你聽到不好的事情，先將它分成兩半，再切成四分之一，就甭提剩下的了。 |
| A rumor without a leg to
stand on will get around some other way. John Tudor 謠言縱使缺了一條腿還是會找到法子四處亂跑的。 |
| Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. Wall Street Proverb 買個謠言、賣個新聞。 |
| Rumor travels faster, but it
don't stay put as long as truth. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924 謠言傳播迅速，卻不像真理能夠久留。 |
| A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of
thinner as it is spread. Richard Armour 謠言是一種在傳播時變得越來越厚，而不是越來越薄的東西。 |
| You can't legislate against
rumor. Johann Nestroy, 1801-1862 你不能立法反對謠言。 |
| Everything becomes a little different as soon as it
is spoken out loud. Hermann Hesse 事件一傳開，便會跟原本有點不一樣。 |